The Attack on Saudi Arabia's Oil Facility. The Patriot Air Defence System Failed. Why?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
Why did Saudi Arabia's advanced Patriot Air defense system fail to detect the drones and missiles? The whole Persian Gulf defense apparatus which includes strategic US and allied military facilities is based on "anticipating" strikes from Iran. Was the Patriot System "Disabled" on September 14?
globalresearch.ca/the-attack-on-saudi-arabias-oil-facility-the-patriot-air-defence-system-failed-why/5689779

#CloseTheCamps: Closing the Migrant Prisons Speakers Forum
Comité VIDA | indybay.org | 2019-09-22
Student Activity Center, Bertolini Hall | Santa Rosa Junior College | 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/21/18826530.php

Study Estimates More than 100,000 Cancer Cases Could Stem from Contaminants in Tap Water
EWG | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
A toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants in U.S. drinking water could result in more than 100,000 cancer cases, according to a peer-reviewed study from Environmental Working Group — the first study to conduct a cumulative assessment of cancer risks due …
globalresearch.ca/study-estimates-100000-cancer-cases-contaminants-tap-water/5689861

Firing Bolton: Bait and Switch or Changing Tack?
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
News of US National Security Adviser John Bolton's departure was followed by hopeful commentary both within the US and abroad that so too would follow the aggressive foreign policy he advocated — particularly in regards to Iran. | However, …
globalresearch.ca/firing-bolton/5689842

European Parliament Adopts Resolution Assimilating Communism to Nazism
Francesco Maringià≤ | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
The single party that governs Italy and the European Union has approved a resolution (yet another) that aligns Nazism and Communism. This is not the first time, it had already happened in the past, in line with the hysteria launched …
globalresearch.ca/european-parliament-adopts-resolution-assimilating-communism-nazism/5689849

America: A Land without Truth
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
It has been 17 days since a four-year study of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 by civil engineers was made available to the media. The study concluded that fire was not the cause of the collapse of …
globalresearch.ca/america-without-truth/5689828

As Arctic Sea Ice Disappears, What Happens to Ecosystems?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-22
| In winter 2018, the sea ice extent in the Bering Sea reached the lowest levels observed since 1850, when records began. By late April, warm, southerly winds left sea ice levels at just 10% of the 1981–2010 average for that time of year. In recent research, scientists studied how the unprecedentedly low ice cover affected ecosystems in the region. | As sea ice melts in the spring, it releas…
truthout.org/articles/as-artic-sea-ice-disappears-what-happens-to-ecosystems/

5G and the Wireless Revolution: When Progress Becomes a Death Sentence
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
"Without any 5G, without any expansion of 4G, without putting any radar units in cars, all of these things are being planned for us, I believe we'll be going…our reproduction will crash essentially to zero within probably about 2-3 years….5G, …
globalresearch.ca/5g-and-the-wireless-revolution-when-progress-becomes-a-death-sentence/5689799

India's Prime Minister Modi's Texas Trip Will Make a Mockery Out of American Democracy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
Trump's participation in the "Howdy Modi" rally that will be held in Houston on 22 September during the Indian leader's nearly week-long trip to the US and represent the largest political gathering ever for a foreign head of state will …
globalresearch.ca/modi-texas-trip/5689834

We Must Remain Skeptical of Any Attempts to Incite War with Iran
Keith Lamb | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
Last Saturday Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq petroleum processing facilities and Khurais oil field were attacked by cruise missiles and drones. The Saudis claim that this unconventional attack thwarted their defense systems as both cruise missiles and drones fly too low. Saudi …
globalresearch.ca/attempts-incite-war-iran/5689845

A Game-Changing China-Pakistan Proposal for the Afghan Peace Process
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
The time has arrived for China and Pakistan to take the lead in reviving the frozen Afghan peace process and replacing the US' leading role in it by unveiling a joint developmental plan to be implemented in the war-torn country …
globalresearch.ca/sino-pak-proposal-afghan-peace-process/5689823

Video: Russia Gave Syria 'Green Light' to Use the S-300 Air Defense System
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
On September 19, the Syrian Air Defense Forces shot down an unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over the town of Aqraba, south of Damascus. Pro-government sources claim that the intercepted UAV was likely operated by Israel. | On August 25, two …
globalresearch.ca/video-russia-gave-syria-green-light-use-s-300/5689826

Iran — Neither Military Action nor Economic Sanctions
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
It would be utterly immoral of the United States to launch a military attack upon Iran if it is true that one of the missiles that destroyed an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia on the 14th of September 2019 …
globalresearch.ca/iran-neither-military-action-nor-economic-sanctions/5689847

Take the General Motors Oshawa Plant, "Save the Planet"
Russ Christianson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
It is a tragic irony that General Motors (GM) chose its hundredth anniversary in Oshawa to announce the December 2019 closure of its Oshawa assembly plant. This means the loss of over 15,000 jobs in Ontario: 2,200 GM assembly jobs, …
globalresearch.ca/take-plant-save-planet/5689857

Rotten in Tunisia: The Corrupt Rule of Ben Ali
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
He was the prototypical strong man softened by tactical reforms, blissfully ignorant before the fall, blown off in the violent winds of the Arab Spring. Having come to power in 1987 on the back of a coup against the 84-year-old …
globalresearch.ca/tunisia-corrupt-rule-ben-ali/5689840

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science
Scientists for future, Gregor Hagedorn | indybay.org | 2019-09-22
We are a group of internationally known scientists, from a variety of scientific fields (biology, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry), who participated in an international summit on post-materialist science, spirituality and society. The summit was co-organized by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD and Mario Beauregard, PhD, the University of Arizona, and Lisa Miller, PhD, Columbia…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/21/18826533.php

US university racism workshop returns, just NINE students come to learn about white privilege
rt.com | 2019-09-22
A university workshop on white privilege and racism was a major flop — attracting just nine students out of the 30,000 enrolled in the school. Last year, the course sparked outrage over the perception that it was 'whites-only'. | The White Consciousness Conversations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte first drew national headlines in September of last year. The scheduled events for students and staff were said to be "for white people" by the school website. Following public backlash, the description was changed to explain that people of color would be welcome to learn about white privilege…
rt.com/usa/469348-whiteness-university-workshop-fail/

Climate Week: Real Democracy Teach-in & Free Veg Dinner (Santa Cruz)
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network | indybay.org | 2019-09-22
Louden Nelson Auditorium, 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz 95060…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/21/18826534.php

Selected Articles: The Attack on Saudi Arabia's Oil Facility
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
Global Research, like many independent voices all over the globe, is feeling the effects of online measures set up to curtail access to our website, and by consequence, hinder our finances. We sail on despite the unpredictable currents and unfavourable …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-post-911-era-global-war-terrorism/5689867

DeVos Threatens to Cut Funding for Middle Eastern Studies Programs for 'Portraying Islam Too Positively'
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-09-22
Sunday marked a deadline for the University of North Carolina and Duke University to submit information to the Trump administration about the two schools' Consortium for Middle East Studies, after the Department of Education accused the joint program of biases against Christianity and Judaism. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/09/22/devos-threatens-cut-funding-middle-eastern-studies-programs-portraying-islam-too?cd-origin=rss

'An Obligation to Make Radical Change': At Youth Climate Summit, Young Leaders Say Merely Listening to Science Is Not Enough
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-09-22
At the first-ever Youth Climate Action Summit at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Saturday, climate leader Greta Thunberg was joined by more than 600 young activists who were able to appeal directly to the U.N. secretary-general a day after helping to galvanize an estimated total of four million people at the Global Climate Strike—and the campaigners in attendance did not mince words. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/09/22/obligation-make-radical-change-youth-climate-summit-young-leaders-say-merely?cd-origin=rss

"Houthi Attack" on Saudi Oil Fields — a False Flag? The Financial Reaction Was Immediate
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-21
The financial reaction was immediate. Saudi stocks fell, the oil prices rose, then settled and later fell again. It was an immediate reaction of major banks' algorithmic speculation with about 10,000 operational hits a second. A trial for larger things to come?
globalresearch.ca/houthi-attack-on-saudi-oil-fields-a-false-flag-the-financial-reaction-was-immediate/5689786

Revealing While Concealing the "Invisible" Government's Conspiracies
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-21
The revelations about the machinations of the so-called "deep state" often conceal deeper truths that go unmentioned. This is quite common, whether it is done intentionally or not. | Sometimes it is intentional and is directed by the intelligence agencies themselves …
globalresearch.ca/revealing-while-concealing-the-invisible-governments-conspiracies/5689792

Ghost post! Google creates world's most powerful computer, NASA 'accidentally reveals' …and then publication vanishes
rt.com | 2019-09-21
Google's new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world's top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA "accidentally" shared the firm's research. | The software engineers at Google have built the world's most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine reported on Friday, citing the company's now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Goo…
rt.com/usa/469325-google-quantum-computer-reports/

Chicagoans demand climate justice in massive #GlobalClimateStrike
Aaron Cynic | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-21
Thousands of Chicagoans marched and rallied across the city Friday as part of a massive global day of action to demand governments take action on climate change. | "My generation deserves a sustainable future. We are calling on the government to fight for us," said Lauren, a senior at Illinois science and Math Academy. "We need to act fast. We can't wait for policy to come. Our futures, our lives, are on the line." | Image credit: Aaron Cynic/NationofChange | Actions began as early as 7: 00am in the city, with several morning demonstrations feeding into a large march that began in Grant Park near noon, culminat…
nationofchange.org/2019/09/21/chicagoans-demand-climate-justice-in-massive-globalclimatestrike/

At UN, youth activists press for bold action on climate emergency, vow to hold leaders accountable at the ballot box
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-21
Students and young activists on Saturday threw down the gauntlet to world leaders heading to United Nations Headquarters next week for high-level climate talks, demanding that they "stop wasting time" and work harder to curb carbon emissions, "or we will vote you out."
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046962

Yoga Teachers Are Unionizing to Heal the Wellness Industry
Sarah Jones | commondreams.org | 2019-09-21
Instructors at the chain YogaWorks are attempting to unionize with the help of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. (Photo: SeattleYogaNews/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/21/yoga-teachers-are-unionizing-heal-wellness-industry?cd-origin=rss

Two Years After the Hurricane, Puerto Rico's "Generation Maria" Leads a Climate Strike
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2019-09-20
One of the most important moments in 16-year-old Tristán Queriot Rodríguez Vélez's climate activism came at the international airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in mid-July. Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, Julia Keleher, was flying back to the island from Washington, D.C. to stand before a federal judge and confront corruption charges. Rodríguez Vélez and…
theintercept.com/2019/09/20/climate-strike-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria/

The Supreme Court Considers Mandatory Government Funding of Religious Education
aclu.org | 2019-09-20
A case out of Montana could result in the church-state separation being stripped to the bone. | In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court will address a question that would have been unthinkable to ask even until quite recently: Can a state be forced to underwrite religious education with taxpayer dollars? Although the court has previously allowed the government to adopt school-voucher programs that provide indirect government aid to religious schools, it has never suggested that the U.S. Cons…
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/religion-and-public-schools/supreme-court-considers-mandatory-government

Only united struggle by workers and their allies can overcome racism
Rick Nagin | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-20
Racism in the United States has two fundamental aspects. One is systemic, the other ideological. The systemic aspect has numerous and pervasive forms, including unequal wages, working conditions, access to financing, education, housing, medical care, and environmental protection, where the capitalists impose harsher conditions on African Americans and other people of color than on white …
peoplesworld.org/article/only-united-struggle-by-workers-and-their-allies-can-overcome-racism/

Who Owns the Sea?
Vanessa Baird | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
The coming months are critical if we are going to stop the damaging free-for-all that is the current status quo and save the world's oceans for our common future. Vanessa Baird examines the prospects. | *** | There's a cartoon that oceanographer …
globalresearch.ca/who-owns-sea/5689740

Saudi Arabia up in Flames: Riyadh Is Headed for a Major Disaster
Federico Pieraccini | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
On Saturday September 14, Yemen's Houthi rebels announced that they had conducted a massive attack on several Aramco plants in Saudi Arabia, including the largest oil refinery in the world in Abqaiq, using 10 drones. On Twitter, dozens of videos …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-arabia-headed-major-disaster/5689730

Europe's Complicity in Latin America's Deforestation Crisis
Forest Peoples Programme | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
Dear President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, | First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, | President of the European Parliament David Sassoli, | Dear Heads of State [heads of government] of countries signatory to the Amsterdam Declaration: | Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister | …
globalresearch.ca/eu-complicity-current-deforestation-crisis/5689744

Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels of Plastic Found in Children
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
New studies are being published that detail high levels of dangerous microplastics had been detected in some of the most remote regions of the world. Another study warned microplastics are turning up in human stool. Now there are new …
globalresearch.ca/alarming-levels-plastic-found-children/5689735

Video: Greater Idlib: Is Syrian Army Advance Inevitable?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
After over 8 years of war, the province of Idlib and its surrounding areas remain the key stronghold of radical militant groups in Syria. Over the past years, anti-government armed groups suffered a series of defeats across the country and …
globalresearch.ca/video-greater-idlib-syrian-army-advance/5689709

Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, Ignoring Kashmir
Richard Falk | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
The World Order Backdrop | Arguably, even before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, there was a widespread sense that a state-centric form of world order was morally and functionally deficient in certain fundamental respects. Political actors were indifferent to …
globalresearch.ca/burning-amazonia-denying-climate-change-devastating-syria-starving-yemen-ignoring-kashmir/5689716

Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict More Damage before He Exits?
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
For most Israelis, the general election on Tuesday was about one thing and one thing only. Not the economy, nor the occupation, nor even corruption scandals. It was about Benjamin Netanyahu. Should he head yet another far-right government, or …
globalresearch.ca/israelis-shown-netanyahu-door-can-he-inflict-more-damage-before-he-exits/5689713

The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis
Mike Konczal | thenation.com | 2019-09-20
The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis…
thenation.com/article/student-debt-zaloom/

Workers want Chicago cops out of schools, parks
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-20
Chicago, IL – On September 13, SEIU Local 73 demanded an end to the city of Chicago spending $33 million from the budget of the public schools, and $12 million from the Parks Department, for police officers. The union, which represents 7000 school workers and 3000 workers in the parks, called for more money for the students and community members. The union was joined by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Black Lives Matter and progressive alderpersons.
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/20/workers-…

Around the world, millions strike demanding climate action
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-20
WASHINGTON–For Daniel Goldman of Arlington, Va., the reason for battling to reverse climate change is very simple. "I don't want to die," he says. Marching with a hand-drawn sign declaring "The wrong ICE is melting" — uniting two controversies on one piece of cardboard — the high school student from Arlington, Va., was one of …
peoplesworld.org/article/around-the-world-millions-strike-demanding-climate-action/

UN staff support youth-driven global action on climate crisis
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-20
Staff at UN Headquarters in New York joined untold numbers of students, scientists, organized labour, and everyday people worldwide, who took to the streets on Friday, demanding action to address climate change.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046872

Working in America: Paychecks for Silence
Louis Yako | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-20
Let us begin with just a few recent and disturbing statistics about working in America. First, most Americans (nearly 78%) live paycheck to paycheck, which makes them vulnerable to abuse and bullying by employers. Second, a 2018 Harris Poll found that…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/working-in-america-paychecks-for-silence/

Charter School Advocates Grow More Belligerent
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-20
Steadily mounting opposition to privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools is inevitable and becoming a bigger thorn in the side of nervous neoliberals, privatizers, and corporate school reformers. Terrified of discussion, investigation, and analysis, and hell-bent on privatizing schools, no matter the cost to society, on September 11, 2019, "Chiefs for Change" issued a letter …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/charter-school-advocates-grow-more-belligerent/

Will the huge student-led Climate Strike be a game changer?
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-20
climate emergency Pip HinmanIssue 1238 Australia #ClimateStrike SS4C Australian Council of Trade UnionsSeptember 20, 201…
greenleft.org.au/content/will-huge-student-strike-be-game-changer

The Post 9/11 Era and The "Global War on Terrorism": "You are Either with Us, or with the Terrorists"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 constitute a fundamental landmark in American history. a decisive watershed, a breaking point. Millions of people have been misled regarding the causes and consequences of 9/11. | September 11 2001 opens up an era …
globalresearch.ca/the-post-911-era-and-the-global-war-on-terrorism-you-are-either-with-us-or-with-terrorists/5689769

Syria Expresses Its Freedom Through Resistance
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-20
Syria expresses her freedom in her resistance to Empire. Resistance takes many forms and trajectories, but they all lead to freedom. | Resistance delivers freedom from terrorism, it expresses itself not only when the SAA defeats Western supported terrorists, but also …
globalresearch.ca/syria-expresses-freedom-resistance/5689718

This Afghan Teen Was Set to Join First-Ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, But U.S. Denied His Visa
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-20
Climate youth activist Nasratullah Elham of Afghanistan was invited to participate in the first-ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, but the United States rejected his visa. He breaks the sound barrier to join us from Phuket, Thailand, where he is a 12th grade student, and says his activism is based on the crisis's impact on his home country. "The poor people there are very badly affected in a situation [where] they do not really have much carbon emissions," he says.
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/afghan_te…

"Young People Have Had Enough": Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching Today
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-20
Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week's U.N. Climate Action Summit. We are joined by Xiye Bastida, a 17-year-old climate justice activist originally from Mexico who is an organizer with Fridays for Future New York and a student at Beacon High School in New York; Katie Eder, a 19-year-old climate justice activist wh…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/global_cl…

California Is Ready to Ensure Every Public College Student Has Access to Abortion
aclu.org | 2019-09-19
The state legislature has passed the first bill in the nation ensuring medication abortion is available on UC and CSU campuses. | In a year when we've seen states throughout the South and Midwest move to ban abortion and restrict access to reproductive health, California could soon cement its reputation as a leader in reproductive freedom. This past week, the state legislature passed SB 24 to ensure that medication abortion is available to college students in public universities. | Jessy Rosales, a UC student, stru…
aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/abortion/california-ready-ensure-every-public-college-student-has-access

Australia's radical history of school strikes
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-19
civil rights Greg AdamsonIssue 1238 Australia high school students social conscienceSeptember 19, 2019What could 15-year-old School Strike 4 Climate activist Harriet O'Shea Carre possibly te…
greenleft.org.au/content/australias-radical-history-school-strikes